Wine/Beer/Spirits Clubs: A Cranky Desultory Phillipic
THINK – HARD – before you sign up with any online wine club. Think about what you’re getting…and what you’re missing.
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Trey Busch and Alex Ganum: There Is No Box
Here’s a toast to the type of person who’s told all the time, “That’ll never work. You’re gonna lose your shirt. Why must you ALWAYS rock the damned boat?!?”…Here’s a toast to Trey Busch and Alex Ganum…
Bottle Shock: Why The Judgment of Paris is More than We Think
Spurrier wanted something else to sell in his Paris wine shop and California might just be, uh, drinkable, if you’re feeling kinky.
Red Wine vs. White Wine: Most of What You Learned is Wrong
I BEG YOU, if you actually love WINE and are not using it as some lifestyle accessory aimed at proving how uber-cool you are, DO NOT take on that asinine, adolescent ‘tude about red over white.
McManis Family Lodi Cabernet: Not So Much a Cab as a Stretch Limo
I’m going to take a fair amount of, uh, merde for this but the new(ish) McManis Lodi AVA California Cabernet is among the five or six best Cabernets I’ve tasted from anywhere…and it remains one of the most jaw-dropping, howling, irrational bargains in the entire world of wine.
Smiting The Hyperbolites: There is NO Such Thing as “Best”
QUIT falling for the communal delusions of “Best”. You have taste buds. USE ‘EM. Listen politely to what your friends say about your beer, your cat, your car, your house, your hair style and then forget it.
“It’s Happening Again”: Mega-Brewery Pre-invades Another Sports Arena
I don’t need to be the smart guy in the room. I DO need to be that guy sitting in his seat, a yelling his head off for the Kraken, sipping a great Washington indie beer that I didn’t have to smuggle in.
Holiday Smack-Up: Homerism and the Sublime at Walter Dacon
Walter Dacon wines, vintage after vintage, are in the top two or three Syrahs I sample from all of Washington and are sometimes flatly the best I taste.
The Pour Fool 